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Cargando... A Robot In The Garden (edición 2015)por Deborah Install
Información de la obraA Robot in the Garden por Deborah Install
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  catseyegreen | Aug 14, 2023 |   Ben is drifting - his parents died six years earlier, his grief led to his dismissal from the veterinary school, his marriage is dissolving around him and he really sees no reason to do anything. Until Tang that is - for a reason that even he cannot explain, the little robot becomes the center of a recovery and even Amy leaving him does not change his new path. So off they go on a trip around the world to try to find some help for Tang - who appears to be in mortal danger from some of the damage he had sustained. Ben starts the novel as a looser who blames everyone else for his issues and never fulfills his promises and ends it as a mature man who is ready for anything life throws at him. The almost comical elements (from the dog they meet to the megalomaniac villain that tries to kill them) are mixed with the story of an evolving father/son relationship (Tang behaves like a brat half of the time and as a toddler otherwise) and that combination should not work and yet, it somehow ends up working. It is a cute novel that can be read as a metaphor for parenthood (and towards the end the author pushes a lot towards that) or as an adventure story. It is both things at the same time, despite some chunkiness and a somewhat uninspired middle. The end makes you smile though - because good wins against evil and all is good in the world (well, mostly). The novel does not seem to have become very popular in English but the Japanese seem to have liked it enough to publish more volumes in the same series (the originals were never published in English from what I can see). (  ) AnnieMod | Apr 5, 2023 |  ) bookdrunkard78 | Jan 6, 2022 | The robot is basically a child in this story. One that learns as he goes. It was delightful. Tantrums and all. The man is ... well, I'd be irritated to live with him, but he does his own learning as he goes as well. The woman, I'd also not want to live with, and I'm not sure how I feel about her own growing. I think she just tries to get back what she had because her other option didn't work out for her. The robot definitely makes this story. (  ) jpeterman | Jul 10, 2020 | Install clearly set out to write a warm and fuzzy book when she wrote A Robot in the Garden and that's exactly what she did. It's a clever new take on an old theme and completely enjoyable reading. (  ) clue | Jun 28, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
La incre#65533;ble y divertida historia de un robotito algo anticuado, un tipo algo inmaduro y el viaje que cambi#65533; sus vidas para siempre. #65533;Qu#65533; har#65533;as si te encontraras a un robot en el jard#65533;n de tu casa? Esto es lo que se pregunta Ben despu#65533;s de que Tang aparezca de repente en su jard#65533;n. Y no porque sea un tipo dado a preocuparse demasiado: a pesar de haber cumplido ya los treinta y de la desesperaci#65533;n de su esposa Amy, que lleva meses harta de esa actitud de eterno Peter Pan, Ben no tiene excesivos planes de futuro. Sin embargo, ese robot desobediente, tierno y capaz de patalear como un cr#65533;o si no se sale con la suya despierta en #65533;l un cari#65533;o inmediato y, decidido a asumir una responsabilidad por una vez en la vida, Ben decide partir en busca de su creador para devolv#65533;rselo. Ambos emprenden un viaje inolvidable que los llevar#65533; primero hasta California y luego a Tokio para culminar en una rec#65533;ndita isla de la Micronesia. Un periplo conmovedoramente divertido para una pareja singular a la que se unir#65533; un estramb#65533;tico, y radiactivo, perro salchicha. Juntos recorrer#65533;n un camino lleno de aventuras en el que Ben aprender#65533; que a veces madurar no consiste en cambiar el mundo, sino en estar ah#65533; cuando tus seres queridos te necesitan, por imperfectos e insoportables que a veces nos parezcan. Esta es la historia de una amistad #65533;nica, de c#65533;mo un hombre abre su coraz#65533;n a un robot entra#65533;able y termina rencontr#65533;ndose a s#65533; mismo. Una novela original y maravillosa en la que Deborah Install nos sorprende con un robot dif#65533;cil de olvidar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For fans of THE ROSIE PROJECT and THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, A broken man and his damaged robot build an unlikely friendship-with some assembly required. Ben's really great at failing at things-his job, taking the garbage out, and being a husband. But when he discovers a battered robot named Tang in his garden, he decides to get out of his couch-ridden comfort zone. Without a crucial bit of machinery, Tang will stop working, and Ben can't let that happen, especially since he's already alienated everyone else he cares about. Determined to achieve something for once in his life, Ben sets out to fix his new robot comrade and soon discovers that Tang might be just the thing to fix what's broken in Ben. Funny, touching, and charming, A Robot in the Garden explores what it is to be a man, a sentient being, and a friend. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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